i. i. i. a day of bloody riots sees a month long state of emergency declared in egypt four hundred twenty one people were killed nationwide after security forces deployed tear gas snipers and armored diggers to clear protest camps. unexpected apology military whistleblower bradley manning says he's sorry for the biggest leak in u.s. history sparking speculation he's been pressured to soften his stance. on sitting on a gold mine no more the u.s. federal reserve loses trust amid mounting concerns that it no longer holds the amount of precious metals that he claims.

are you watching r.t. with meat and dairy farm. now egypt is locked in a state of emergency after nationwide street battles which saw to gas gunfire four hundred twenty one deaths and as many as three and a half thousand injured security forces swept through two protest camps full of supporters of the ousted president mohammed morsy and we have to warn you some of the images you were back to see are disturbing these are just some of the victims of the deadly clashes between protesters and security forces but the muslim brotherhood claims the real number of casualties is much higher than officially emitted authorities are now forcing a curfew in cairo and several other provinces across the country the interim prime minister defended the military operation insisting his government is committed to democracy but vice president mohamed el baradei resigned saying there should have

been a peaceful solution artie's peltry is in cairo. this morning egyptians seem to be getting on with their daily lives despite the fact that so yesterday so probably one of the most bloodiest days in egyptian modern history however we are expecting more protests as the day goes on and in particular funerals for the people who were killed yesterday across the nation in these very bloody clashes between supporters of ousted leader mohamed morsy and security forces now the muslim brotherhood are largely spearheading these these protests by saying they are not going to back down the bloodshed is really just adding to their defiance as they will push for morsy to be reinstated and the constitution many people are actually saying this is going to intensify the protests in the coming days as protesters have now lost several friends and family members in these extremely bloody clashes now i was there yesterday on the scene in the way another city sit in the main encampment for boise

and it really was continuous gunfire from security forces who were firing on protesters both inside they come up with the most anyone attempting to access them could live on the mission and gunshot automatic weapons as well as tear gas it's also sectarian violence across the country which exploded yesterday as it is impossible to mohamed morsi attack the christians accusing them of basically being responsible for the ouster so you've got a lot of bubbling tensions here in the capital with a very fractured government we expect a lot of violence on the horizon and do follow ballo on twitter she is keeping track of everything that is happening in cairo. these images apparently show the authorities confiscating guns and ammunition from one of the prime morsy city camps but mona. who is a spokesperson for the muslim brotherhood in the u.k. told us that security forces are to blame for all of the violence signaling a return to a military state. the violence is on the union lot today and it's coming from the

part of military force is the violence and the killing has only been from one side trying or not trying to frame some of the peaceful protesters would not help because the number of casualties is actually striking the international community is all coked to one of the worst massacre in the modern history of egypt hundreds were killed in cold innocent peaceful egyptians who went there calling for the democracy back where shoki protests have spread all over egypt what's happening now is much bigger than the muslim brotherhood is much bigger than the president morsi it's about egypt it's about free egypt it's about the democracy it's about the human rights in egypt where saying better turn of a military state or turn of. emergency law which which has only been used to violate our human rights as free egyptians. that has been plenty of shocking footage after the military use full force when sweeping on prime mostly protest the

camps and we cannot take a look at some of the images that have been caught on camera i have to warn you they are disturbing you can see people moving in one direction and then one a pace to shoot another man in the lower part of your screen muslim brotherhood as we just heard says the government is responsible for all of the violence but there have been accusations of morsy supporters firing at police tell you when it's not clear who is shooting at who in this video do not know whether the victim dying or not your correspondent eric margolis was written extensively about the middle east says western powers aren't doing anything to help the situation which means the violence could get even worse. we are very close to the civil war in egypt not only in cairo but in xandra and down the nile as you head into upper egypt the people get more militant there and it's historically areas largely violent so it's very worrisome what they've done is they've overthrown one of the arab world's only

democratically elected governments they reimposed the reactionary group of security officers leaves bureaucrats judges they've taken over the media completely and all this is being financed with money from saudi arabia and kuwait and it's being allowed to happen because the western powers are turning a blind eye to what's going on they're saying tut tut tut it's not good but in fact they really haven't done anything substantial to stop this putsch egypt cannot live without foreign financial support it cannot feed its own people it has to put fifty percent of its food so that. it is either as the patron and the united states or with the gulf arabs in the gulf verbs or death we are. other people so of course they're hoping the council revolution in egypt. has much more of what's

happening in egypt on our website a detailed timeline of events and first time the kind from people who have we've got it covered for you don't call me while you'll browsing our web site to make sure you check out photo gallery so you we have lined up some of the most striking pictures for you in the country's capital seoul just a click away. u.s. private bradley manning has apologized to the court hearing the whistleblower responsible for the biggest leak of classified data in american history said he never meant to cause harm to his country manning tonight faces ninety years in jail and he's awaiting his sentence this war. bradley manning took the stand he remained silent throughout the trial but he did give

a very brief statement and i think what he said during that statement shocked a lot of people he started off by apologizing he said quote sorry that i hurt the united states he said he has suffers from issues and there is no excuse for that he said i can't go back and change things i want to go forward i want to be a better person and i got to the point where it seemed like he was just leading to the judge pleading for his life he said to the judge i hope you can give me an opportunity to be a productive person and i say that these statements come as a shock because it was a very different bradley manning than the one we heard during the pretrial hearings where he said that he did what he did because he was trying to do the right thing and that he was a whistleblower. well bradley manning is perhaps most famous for exposing this video shows civilians being killed by u.s. troops in iraq and he's also passed diplomatic cables and war logs which were

published by wiki leaks so his apology in court did come as a surprise to many people just several months ago the whistle blows at the chief did it paid to be quite different he said and i quote him here i felt i had accomplished something that allowed me to have a clear conscience based upon what i had seen and what i had read about and knew was happening in both iraq and afghanistan every day we could say that manning's apology was extracted by extreme force and that he simply ran out of options early we spoke to norman solomon who spearheading a petition for bradley manning to be awarded the nobel peace prize more than one hundred thousand people have signed it already for the prize has been tarnished in recent years for instance to give the nobel peace prize to president barack obama obama when he was in the midst of escalating the war in afghanistan the nobel peace prize needs bradley manning at this point much more than bradley manning needs the

nobel peace prize and by that i mean that no one can doubt the advocacy and the risk for peace that bradley manning has undertaken but there is serious doubt about the commitment by the norwegian nobel committee to peace on an independent basis in the form of awarding the nobel peace prize. still ahead we tell you how china may make its currency a major world play by putting the financial bling back into gold plus black and white. police in britain are accused of racial bias and abuse and over the targeting of black people for random checks despite no evidence of wrongdoing that's coming up in a couple of minutes. old

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cut out again it appears the world is losing trust in the dollar as a safe haven a major blow you came after jim these bundles bank demanded the repatriation of a big chunk of its gold being held in the us because as. some concern the assets of foreign nations in the federal reserve are not secure or even. behind these walls is one of the most secretive organizations in the world u.s. federal reserve websites to audit them it's a wall this place is impenetrable for we years the u.s. federal reserve has been the place where many countries of the word a big chunk of their nations well as the countries weathered different waves of economic crises instability the federal reserve seems to them like a more or less secure place to keep their funds but are the funds really secure or

are they even being there has been speculation for a long time that the fed doesn't actually have much gold that he has either sold it all lent it out or used it as collateral for borrowings either way there are many claims that the gold that is being stored on behalf of many nations doesn't actually exist germany has recently decided to bring home all these gold but the federal reserve says that it's not possible that it would need until two thousand and twenty to be able to accomplish such a transfer germany then asked to visit the fed vaults to make sure that the gold is actually there but the fed first refused to permit germany to exempt examine its own gold then the germans apparently assisted in the fed did open only one of nine rules but they were not permitted to either enter or touch the gold the german government has stored about half of its schools supply with the us federal reserve so they are understandably nervous this makes not only germans nervous of course u.s. financial institutions have a history of selling things that don't exist one example last year goldman sachs

were proven to have been selling gold certificates to the public saying that they were backed by real gold in their balls but the story leaked out that they'd fact held no gold at all and were doing the so-called fractional reserve gold banking on the basis that few people would want to claim their gold at any one time and looking further back in history during world war two the fed came to many countries in asia latin america and africa. and told them their gold holdings might not be safe because of the war and that they should permit the fed to take all of it to the us for safekeeping many countries have done that receiving said gold certificates in exchange but when they later tried to cash in those specific days and reclaim their gold they were told the certificates were fake that they contain spelling and other mistakes so on and so forth and the fed still has all that gold the power of the u.s. federal reserve has grown dramatically especially since the one nine hundred

seventy when the u.s. cut the link between the dollar and and gold that allowed u.s. dollars to be bought and sold freely on the market and with the u.s. dollar being the main reserve currency the u.s. has basically been able to tax the whole world in just the value of the country holdings by printing more money now we see many countries trying to maneuver away from the u.s. dollar is the main reserve currency and we see many central banks increasing their own gold reserves and he seems after all these years the world decided they put too much power in this one building. meanwhile china's gold consumption has skyrocketed by more than half the share it's been buying up gold fuelling full cost is preparing a revolution in the world's financial system the wildest speculation suggests beijing could be holding up to ten thousand tons of yellow metal preparing a return to the gold standard and that is lighting up the whole market as aussies

venture capital show host katie pilbeam explains. sadly chinese buyers have been snapping it up because is cheaper price means a currently consider of all good also feeling demand is a desire for physical assets instead of bonds or betting on foreign exchanges so here we go then these other countries are the world's largest gold reserve. although it's actually suspected that china has far more than these official figures suggest it may even have more than that of the us china is also the world's largest producer of gold and could soon become the biggest consumer pushing india off the top spot in that department. so despite or all the years ago china's recent interest demonstrates the precious metals lost none of its sign and china's growing interest in gold is part of its attempt to float the un as an alternative to the world's leading currencies at least that is the view of george coo and

analyst on china u.s. relations. i think china is moving towards becoming a another. currency for foreign exchange reserve and they've lost a lot of confidence in the future of the dollar and i think that's something that they were shaken by the financial crisis of two thousand and nine so it's fair to say that they're now looking to. ameliorate their risk by having some other alternatives to in a in addition to holding dollars and one of the alternative is to move towards having the looming be the chinese currency as an alternative as a reserve currency alternative to to the dollar euro and the japanese yen

and the speculation a lot of talk in fact about china's rimini become me a fully convertible currency by two thousand and fifteen. we do have plenty more stories at our website at the moment and here's a taste of what is there inoculating crime a us hospital technician has killed dozens of people by infecting them with hepatitis c. with tainted needles the details of that story at r.t. dot com clubs if you keep surfing to go underwater with online t.v. on r.t. dot com you can watch this rescue operation of a whale and he got caught in shark nets enjoy the life saving forty two fish gentle giant on in motion page. news today violence flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from the

streets of canada. showing corporations rule the day. some international news in brief five ball news went off across iraq's capital killing two dozen people today in reportedly injuring many more in an attack near the green zone a highly fortified area housing the u.s. diplomatic mission for a thought to have lost their lives while a bomb near a bus station claimed six others. the u.n. says its chemical weapons experts are ready for an imminent departure to syria this comes after assad's government gave its formal approval for the team to conduct an inquiry into the possible use of toxic weapons led by the swedish scientists akki sellstrom they will conduct investigations at three sites one of them is karnow a cell near aleppo where the rebels are accused of using chemicals in march and in

the german city of simming in stand there were wide scale anti anger merkle protests on wednesday demonstrators came out in their droves as chancellor launched her new election campaign america's reputation has been seriously damaged by recent revelations that have government have been spying on citizens from foreign agencies like the n.s.a. . a militant protesters gathered in pakistan's eastern lahore amid rising tensions in the kashmir province supporters of the militant group demanded their new prime minister open a dialogue with the bia to prevent further violence deadly attacks struck along the volatile border just as peace talks over the disputed land were set to reopen. racial injustice is still an issue in britain figures show that black people are seven times more likely to be searched by police on the street than white people and most of the time without any evidence tester senator investigates accusations

of intrusive stop and search discrimination. one morning while driving to work nathan was stopped by the police and asked to step out of his car aggressively showered. and useful of kind of this so. you know sort of in your own cigarettes they don't kind of miss a police lady was walking past me. you know to do anything and i was going to just going to check your car nathan says they grabbed his wrists at which point he started getting angry is only when i got to the police station what he told me is when he told me. to do fifteen or forty speeding yeah so. i don't you know nathan's experience is just one of numerous other stories of black and minority ethnic youths who feel they've been unfairly targeted or treated by police a sentiment that's fueled riots in the past. home secretary theresa may order the

police watchdog to conduct its first ever study into the use of stop and searches and deemed wanted for were unlawful warning that black and minority ethnic groups were stopped more than white people janet hill's a detective at the metropolitan police service says she's been stopped herself and more times than she's personally use the power on other people i've been stopped and searched in my time and again the way i view it is that whenever i've used that power it's always been about the tech the intelligence around stopping an individual not just because they just happen to be hanging on the street corner and of more than one million stop and searches recorded each year. only about nine percent result in an arrest which the home secretary described as quote far too low for comfort many of the people we've spoken to don't have a problem in theory with the stop and search powers of the police but the problem arises in individual cases where people walk away feeling like they've been on the receiving end of injustice and the repercussions these experiences may have it can

have a very negative impact it has done in the wrong way and it can make people feel really good it can make them feel to me and they can leave very serious mental emotional trauma if it's if they feel they've been abused which then creates resentment and the trust and confidence that you know the police the story the community should hide in the place is lost in response to a report by the independent police complaints commission which found that scotland yard is failing in the way it handles complaints of racism and discrimination the metropolitan police sent us this statement we determined to be less defensive and except when we're not performing as well as we should be it's powerful sharing the way we deal with complaints involving racism he's letting down the public we need to understand more about what we're doing wrong as well as taking the best out of where we get it right i do realize that the police have a job to do but in winning a port of about nine times in one year you know it gets

a bit. frustrating are you so angry. well you know when i when i think back and i do i do get angry but i try to keep i just try to go materially from you know cheap you don't fit in again i can make sure i do take it well and to put in a complaint see where it gets tell so cilia r t london thanks for being with us today we've got more news coming up in a bag this time next though it's worlds apart on a point. the video game company of heroes two is facing a lot of heat from gamers inside the former soviet union in fact fourteen thousand people thus far have taken the time to sign a change dot org petition to get the game removed from former communist shelves across the land why are people so mad this looks like some sort of world war two

game i mean in this type of game there isn't going to be a murdering of hawkers or virtual rampaging through cities with rocket launchers so why did they start a petition for you to blogger called the bad comedian made a detailed twenty five minute video depicting all the gross historical inaccuracies and exaggerations throughout the game but he prefers the soviet army as a pack of slave driving before with every soviet officer wanting nothing more than to shoot his old soldiers in the back or send them to the gulag forthwith according to polygon dot com the game exploits where moments in the wars history like some very limited battles were soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting right fellas infantry directly into machine gun fire was part of the soviet army manual maybe it's a bit oversensitive to flip out over a dumb video game but lies repeated often enough will become true in the minds of millions of people who play the game and that's why you can't back down when it comes to historical falsification but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome to all the part communities around the world that you mean russia's recent ban on propaganda of homosexuality to minors so much so that many are now calling for a boycott of the sochi t. thousand and fourteen winter olympics but if they indeed succeed in pulling the plug on the games will gays and lesbians in russia be treated with greater

tolerance to discuss that i'm now joined by boris dittrich advocacy director of human rights watch i'll g.b.t. program mr dietrich i really appreciate your being here now you were among those who appealed to the international olympics committee to speak out against what you see as russia's discriminatory treatment of gays and lesbians and let's face it gays and lesbians and transgender people are being discriminated all around a walled on a social basis but when it comes to legal framework discrimination in bad within laws how exactly are the rights of algy between people being violated in russia your road to many countries in the world people so let's say homosexuals are being discriminated but usually not by their governments in russia recently a propaganda law has been adopted by the duma and has been put into force and

basically it says when you speak on. in public in favor of homosexuality when marner are present or are involved that would violate the law that would lead to a fine if you are a foreigner you could be arrested and deported from russia ok and how do you know that lympics come into all of that well as the minister of sport in russia a few days ago announced this is a russian law it is applies to everybody who is in russia so during the sortie or limpid winter games which will start in a little bit over six months time already it means that all the athletes all their supporters everybody who is dealing with the olympic winter games will be affected by the law if they want to use their freedom of speech and what we see now that russia has legalized this homophobic legislation we see an increase on the internet

for instance of groups that try to lure young homosexual people into dates and then they expose them on the internet put a film on there have me take you up on that again if you refer to that as legalized homophobia and let us be clear that being gay in russia is not illegal the legislation that we are now discussing is a propaganda homosexual activity and hmong minus and i would like to ask you specifically why do you consider it is to be and in now in the bill the right of any athlete if he started preaching homosexuality to minus one that parents for example are against it and as you probably know this law has an overwhelming support around eighty percent of the russian public strongly supportive as to are many exam many answers to your question one is that when an athlete comes from a certain country.